Catholic Bishops Express Opposition to Pro-Abortion Litmus Test for Judges

LifeNews.com is reporting that:

[Pro-abortion] supporters of judicial filibusters in the Senate against President Bush's pro-life nominees for federal courts scheduled over 100 local rallies Wednesday to support their cause. However, many were poorly attended.

... rallies ... were sponsored by ... Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, People for the American Way, NARAL and the MoveOn PAC.

Each of the groups back legalized abortion and turnout was lower than organizers expected.

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Meanwhile, the nation's Catholic bishops have sponsored a postcard campaign telling senators not to make abortion a litmus test for disapproving judges. (emphasis added)

My Comments:
With all the real issues Americans have to worry about on a daily basis, it's not particularly surprising that the Democrats and their secularist leftist allies are having difficulty getting people worked up into a lather over support for the filibuster.

But I was a little surprised to read in this piece that the U.S. Catholic bishops are getting involved in the nomination fight by sponsoring a postcard mailing to encourage senators not to have a pro-abortion litmus test for judicial nominees.

For more on the mailing, see "Catholics Send Millions of Postcards Urging Senators Not to Use a Pro-Abortion Litmus Test for Judges".

Why can't these bishops stay out of politics and just stick to preaching sacharine touchy-feely platitudes that don't offend peoples' sensibilities? Don't they know they're violating the separation of Church and State by talking about the Church's teaching on abortion and liberal "Catholic" politicians' support thereof? How long before Al Gore calls the bishops "heretics" or Ken Salazar labels them as "Antichrists"?